SOLO ALBUM "RAIN IS SUCH A LONESOME SOUND"
Blues Matters review said
"the number of blues players who can set the hairs on the back of your
neck on edge can be counted on your fingers and toes - Giles Hedley is
one..." Available by email
gileshedley@gmail.com or get it on Amazon or from your favourite
blues stockist!

Giles has been singing and playing roots blues,
solo and with The Aviators, across the UK and
Europe since the sixties, on acoustic and electric guitars and
harmonicas - his trademark is simultaneous nose-and-mouth harmonica
playing! He's a regular on blues festival and club circuits in
England and on the continent, and has featured repeatedly on radio in
England and France.

Giles's passion is to share the emotion of a blues song. Critics
and audiences say he draws them into the blues feeling - joyous, ribald
or sad - like no other. Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown's legendary
drummer once called him "the funkiest singer I've heard in Europe"!

Perhaps that’s why
The Times’s critic said “He sings and a whole bar-room is rapt”,
and Blues Matters called him “one hell of an entertainer”. The
French magazine Blues & Co described a recent set as “ Un moment
de pur blues, fait d’émotion et de feeling” – which doesn’t need
translating!

Giles's solo work recreates the passion, grit and fire of the delta blues
greats - Son House, Fred McDowell (with both of whom Giles appeared in the Seventies), Kokomo
Arnold, Robert Johnson. Ragtime and gospel songs keep the variety
flowing and showcase his eclectic guitar styles.

His band The Aviators is a funky roots-blues outfit
steeped in early Chicago blues. Earthy slide and steel guitars, blistering
lead guitar, a passionate, Howlin' Wolf-style voice, adventurous bass and
drums right up in the mix - that's the unmistakeable Aviators sound,
unlike other British blues bands.

The Aviators comprise:

on drums the inimitable Sam Kelly, of Blues in Britain's Hall of Famewww.sam-kelly.com